As i can see Pruitt Igoe before it turned to abondoned hood looks very upliftin',nice,warm and soulful.Just as many others similar places in the U.S.A.,Canada,Europe,ex-U.S.S.R.,Mongolia, North Korea ...
This was something that happened in a lot of cities ( search Cabrini Green) and the same thing happened all over...And now you have unheard of homeless people and tons of empty buildings and houses...We should be so lucky to have housing for people like they did then now it is ok to live in your car and they build schools for homeless children black and white.
This is awful. How can one let these kind of projects go through?! Goodness gracious me, I surely hope this modernist shithouse idea does not comes to Europe and Sweden.
Pruitt was designated for Blacks (named after Wendell Pruitt, a St. Louis-native who was a Tuskeegee Airman); Igoe was designated for Whites (named after Wm. Igoe, a fmr Congressman). The Igoe portion was eventually integrated for a short time before White tenants started to move out. Segregation played a part in the development's failure, but it's abandonment by all stakeholders with authority subjected the complex to the ravages of agency neglect & gave rise to an enviro that fostered crime.
I lived there as a child and it was HELL I had to fight everyday. I just learned from these video's that Pruitt was for the blacks and Igoe was for the Whites but the whites did not want to live in the Igoe. WHY? Was it because racism was so high in St. Louis, or was it because it was against the LAW for Blacks to go across St. Louis Ave well to answer that it was both. The whites hated the blacks and the blacks hated the whites, I know a lot of Whites were killed in or near those projects.
@sugaabear when Pruitt Igoe was built, housing segregation was still in effect, of course, the idea of segregated housing in the project was soon abandoned. but yes, from what little i can find to read, it was a horrible place indeed. could you shed some more light on your experiences?
@aliesneo I was a resident of Pruitt Igoe for 15 year's and it was no joke. I lived on Jefferson and Cass ave. It was like we were living in the belly of the beast. The city and the police department abandon us and it was a free for all in criminal activity. The building's were nasty and filthy no one cared. It was as horrible as you can imagine. No other project's in America can match the nightmare of Pruitt Igoe.
@revnasteewaters57 I saw that you lived on Jefferson & Cass, so, I decided to see who you are. I lived on Jefferson and Cass as well. Johnnie Parker! I remember your family, but I don't remember our building being nasty. In fact, we lived in the BEST building in the projects. I wonder if you will figure out who I am. LOL
@revnasteewaters57 Dear Sir, If you had lived there for 15 years then you would have to remember it when it was brand new or at least nearly. I am curious, what was it like when you first moved in? Was it that bad from the first day. Did Caucasions really live there at one time too. I hop to hear back from you.
@oweneden I was born in Pruitt-Igoe and the place was nice at first. There was green grass and lots of janitors to keep the projects clean. White people stayed on one end and blacks on the other and life was good. Then the late 60s came and all hell broke loose. Rape, murder, drugs and the lowest form of people moved in. The police was afraid to come up in Pruitt-Igoe because the criminal elements would shoot at them so we had no protection. It became a living hell.
@sugaabear I was there in Pruitt Igoe Cass and Jefferson. I know what you mean. I went to Carr Lane grade school and it was a mad house also. I got so tired of getting my ass kicked I started fighting back. I knew the Spink brother's also as children. I was there in 1968 when the pipe's froze and busted it was horrible no eletricity. I thought I would bond with you on Pruitt Igoe. I know it like you do.
Not surprisingly, Donovan completely fails to grasp the meaning behind the failure of Pruitt-Igoe. It had nothing to do with the architecture or the ravages of segregation and everything to do with the failure of collectivism and central planning.
Oh, I really enjoyed that! So nice buildings, so nice, even prefectly nice architecture for my eyes... I am from Estonia, a former Soviet Union country and I live in such an area in our capital. For me this is the best place on earth where to live, really! I think more than a half of Tallinn lives in these areas. We don't have that kind of problems, or maybe we have, but the level of crime is so much worse then? I doubt though. We renovate them and live in them. Very good video, thanks a lot!
@poolryhm in Talinn, i'm guessing those buildings are policed, and invested in just as much as the rest of the city, and your buildings also provide housing for middle-class, as well as poor, and maybe some rich. This, on the other hand is a bunch of poor, sometimes dangerous people concentrated into one housing development, with no police, and was left to decay.
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As i can see Pruitt Igoe before it turned to abondoned hood looks very upliftin',nice,warm and soulful.Just as many others similar places in the U.S.A.,Canada,Europe,ex-U.S.S.R.,Mongolia, North Korea ...
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It's so sad to see that they have been demolished.
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This was something that happened in a lot of cities ( search Cabrini Green) and the same thing happened all over...And now you have unheard of homeless people and tons of empty buildings and houses...We should be so lucky to have housing for people like they did then now it is ok to live in your car and they build schools for homeless children black and white.
lilywondertwin 1 month ago
Nice counterpoint to the section in the Glass film. No less powerful.
MsPandaRosa 6 months ago
My family grew up ib those projects my grandmother said it was as bad as it seems!
shendreiagib 11 months ago
This is awful. How can one let these kind of projects go through?! Goodness gracious me, I surely hope this modernist shithouse idea does not comes to Europe and Sweden.
boii1990 11 months ago
This is a nice video. I've seen some of the pictures before, but some of them were new to me. Great Job!
n2life2 1 year ago 2
Pruitt was designated for Blacks (named after Wendell Pruitt, a St. Louis-native who was a Tuskeegee Airman); Igoe was designated for Whites (named after Wm. Igoe, a fmr Congressman). The Igoe portion was eventually integrated for a short time before White tenants started to move out. Segregation played a part in the development's failure, but it's abandonment by all stakeholders with authority subjected the complex to the ravages of agency neglect & gave rise to an enviro that fostered crime.
djkcoleman 1 year ago
amazing video!
thehuppancs 1 year ago
I lived there as a child and it was HELL I had to fight everyday. I just learned from these video's that Pruitt was for the blacks and Igoe was for the Whites but the whites did not want to live in the Igoe. WHY? Was it because racism was so high in St. Louis, or was it because it was against the LAW for Blacks to go across St. Louis Ave well to answer that it was both. The whites hated the blacks and the blacks hated the whites, I know a lot of Whites were killed in or near those projects.
sugaabear 1 year ago
@sugaabear when Pruitt Igoe was built, housing segregation was still in effect, of course, the idea of segregated housing in the project was soon abandoned. but yes, from what little i can find to read, it was a horrible place indeed. could you shed some more light on your experiences?
aliesneo 1 year ago
@aliesneo I was a resident of Pruitt Igoe for 15 year's and it was no joke. I lived on Jefferson and Cass ave. It was like we were living in the belly of the beast. The city and the police department abandon us and it was a free for all in criminal activity. The building's were nasty and filthy no one cared. It was as horrible as you can imagine. No other project's in America can match the nightmare of Pruitt Igoe.
revnasteewaters57 1 year ago
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n2life2 1 year ago
@revnasteewaters57 I saw that you lived on Jefferson & Cass, so, I decided to see who you are. I lived on Jefferson and Cass as well. Johnnie Parker! I remember your family, but I don't remember our building being nasty. In fact, we lived in the BEST building in the projects. I wonder if you will figure out who I am. LOL
n2life2 1 year ago 2
@n2life2 Are you still to chicken shit to let me know who you are?
revnasteewaters57 1 year ago
@revnasteewaters57 Dear Sir, If you had lived there for 15 years then you would have to remember it when it was brand new or at least nearly. I am curious, what was it like when you first moved in? Was it that bad from the first day. Did Caucasions really live there at one time too. I hop to hear back from you.
oweneden 3 months ago
@oweneden I was born in Pruitt-Igoe and the place was nice at first. There was green grass and lots of janitors to keep the projects clean. White people stayed on one end and blacks on the other and life was good. Then the late 60s came and all hell broke loose. Rape, murder, drugs and the lowest form of people moved in. The police was afraid to come up in Pruitt-Igoe because the criminal elements would shoot at them so we had no protection. It became a living hell.
revnasteewaters57 3 months ago
@sugaabear I was there in Pruitt Igoe Cass and Jefferson. I know what you mean. I went to Carr Lane grade school and it was a mad house also. I got so tired of getting my ass kicked I started fighting back. I knew the Spink brother's also as children. I was there in 1968 when the pipe's froze and busted it was horrible no eletricity. I thought I would bond with you on Pruitt Igoe. I know it like you do.
revnasteewaters57 1 year ago
Not surprisingly, Donovan completely fails to grasp the meaning behind the failure of Pruitt-Igoe. It had nothing to do with the architecture or the ravages of segregation and everything to do with the failure of collectivism and central planning.
kingdickthefirst 1 year ago
Places like this one are still in eastern europe...those places are really ugly.
Brambor97 1 year ago
The pictures in this sequence are awsome! Where'd you get them from and is there anyway I can get copies? Thanks a lot
preech1975 1 year ago
Oh, I really enjoyed that! So nice buildings, so nice, even prefectly nice architecture for my eyes... I am from Estonia, a former Soviet Union country and I live in such an area in our capital. For me this is the best place on earth where to live, really! I think more than a half of Tallinn lives in these areas. We don't have that kind of problems, or maybe we have, but the level of crime is so much worse then? I doubt though. We renovate them and live in them. Very good video, thanks a lot!
poolryhm 1 year ago
@poolryhm in Talinn, i'm guessing those buildings are policed, and invested in just as much as the rest of the city, and your buildings also provide housing for middle-class, as well as poor, and maybe some rich. This, on the other hand is a bunch of poor, sometimes dangerous people concentrated into one housing development, with no police, and was left to decay.
pawpawnorth 3 months ago
@poolryhm Respect.
UndergroundJazzA 1 month ago
Awsome, thanks!
florihupf 1 year ago
The best video of pruitt igoe
enfoques21 1 year ago
so was this project meant to be experimental?
imilkdude 1 year ago